KANSAS CITY, MO. – A dog who couldn’t hear has learned some sign language thanks to inmates at a U.S. prison and children at a school for the deaf. Inmates at a Missouri prison trained the deaf dachshund named Sparky in sign language and then asked the Missouri School for the Deaf in Fulton to [...]
WASHINGTON: Former US President George W Bush has reportedly cancelled a visit to Switzerland amid concerns that he could be arrested for allegedly authorising the torture of prisoners. The former American president was due to speak at a charity gala, making the keynote speech at Keren Hayesod’s annual dinner in the city of Geneva on [...]
SEATTLE – A U.S. man convicted in 2003 of being the “Green River Killer” faces a 49th murder charge, filed Monday, stemming from the death of a woman whose skeletal remains were found near Seattle in December, 28 years after she disappeared. Gary Ridgway will be brought from his cell at the Washington State Penitentiary [...]
The FBI told financial institutions in New York that they face a potential threat from al-Qaeda, said Jim Margolin, a spokesman for the bureau’s New York office. The banks were given briefings last month on the possible threats from al-Qaeda after published reports surfaced focusing on those businesses, Margolin said. “The threat information is that [...]
Home loans that inflated the U.S. housing bubble by giving borrowers the choice of cutting interest payments in exchange for higher balances are fueling the fastest gains in the mortgage-bond market. Prices for senior bonds tied to option adjustable-rate mortgages, called “toxic” by a government commission, typically jumped 6 cents to 64 cents on the [...]
With duped Indian students of a ‘sham’ university frantically looking for alternatives to avoid deportation back home, the Indian missions have set up helplines to guide them through the legal process. Some 1,555 students of Tri-Valley University (TVU), 90% of them from India, mostly Andhra Pradesh, face the prospect of deportation following the closure of the [...]
Police say a military officer’s wife killed her son on the way to soccer practice, then drove to their upscale home and shot her daughter in the head while the girl studied at her computer. When police responded to a call from a concerned relative and found Julie Schenecker on the back porch of her [...]
By Paula M. Davis, Kalamazoo Gazette HARTFORD — Loved ones of slain Hartford mother Amy Henslee plan to push for a statewide measure that would require authorities to launch a search within 24 hours or earlier when a person is reported missing, said Henslee family friend Wendy Boyd. At a press conference Saturday, Boyd said, [...]
TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 29 — A Florida woman married to a military intelligence officer shot her son while driving him home from soccer and then killed her daughter, police allege. Julie Schenecker, 50, has been charged with first-degree murder, The Tampa Tribune reported. After she was booked Friday, she was sent to Tampa General Hospital [...]
By Don Lee and David Pierson Reporting from Washington and Beijing — In his State of the Union call to revitalize the economy, President Obama suggested that Americans today face a new “Sputnik moment” — the challenge of another foreign superpower bent on domination. Just as a complacent America was jolted into action when the Soviet Union launched [...]
